GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

Amazon first started building out its internal COVID-19 testing lab with diagnostic equipment from third-party manufacturers in April 2020. Business Insider reported Monday that the company may offer at-home medical tests — including for COVID-19 — and a third-party marketplace for general home-diagnostics services.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2023

The company today also started notifying employees impacted by its latest round of job cuts in Amazon Web Services, HR, Twitch and Amazon Advertising. In 2017, we envisioned building a new service and products dedicated to helping customers improve their individual health and wellness. The subscription was $3.99/month,

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

According to IBM’s official mainframe life cycle history , each generation of hardware typically remains on sale for 4.1 years of follow-on service. The z900 also had one of the longest periods of follow-on service, at 8.5 When will Z end? years, with an additional 7.4 years after its launch in June 2006.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Although the number of web services supporting two-factor authentication has grown steadily, consumer adoption still remains low. Twitter, which rolled out two-factor authentication in 2013, revealed in 2020 that only 2.3 We’ve already enrolled users that we deem to be early adopters and whose accounts were 2SV ready,” Kim said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. It will also save the firm a bundle on hardware costs. Freeing up valuable resources.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Call it the Clash of the Cloud Titans: Today Microsoft is taking the wraps off Azure Orbital , a cloud-based satellite data processing platform that competes with Amazon Web Services’ Ground Station offering. “Satellites are becoming more and more important for a variety of reasons,” he said.

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Venture Beast

MAY 18, 2020

However, to go without a proper backup plan and to hope for the best is fool-hardy in 2020. SPONSORED DEALS: Let’s face it; data redundancy is not everyone’s favorite topic of conversation.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. The company listed these key priorities for its security initiatives: Making its software, cloud services, firmware and hardware secure by design. Microsoft Photo).

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TM Forum

JUNE 13, 2022

Investment in 5G-specific antenna hardware such as massive MIMO has seen a spike in RAN equipment spending in recent years. On average, the percentage of total revenues that B2B services (connectivity and beyond) represent, reached 30% in 2020 for many major operators. But it is not all about the technology costs. architectures.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Winners of the 2020 GeekWire Awards make their acceptance speeches on the live-streamed event. And now … the winners in all 12 categories of the 2020 GeekWire Awards. — Adam Selipsky (@aselipsky) July 24, 2020. Hardware/Gadget of the Year, presented by First Tech Federal Credit Union. Winner: Ally.

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2021

The generation of Amazon Echo Dot devices released in September 2020, which include tiger and panda designs, contain some recycled materials. Amazon’s effort to green its own products is being spearheaded by Rachel Praetorius , who leads sustainability and hardware operations for Amazon Devices & Services.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers such as Ralph Lauren, Staples, Ace Hardware, and others use Flexe to support their online businesses and reduce the costly “last mile” delivery expense. Previously: Why this supply chain startup is drawing comparisons to Amazon Web Services and Airbnb.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Founded in 2013, Flexe closed out 2020 with a $70 million Series C round and has raised $134 million in total funding. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. He previously was an executive at Staples and spent almost a decade at eBay.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

This development is not surprising, given that the International Data Corporation (IDC) has forecasted a robust expansion of the global enterprise and service provider expenditure on hardware, software, and services for edge solutions until 2025, with spending expected to surpass $274 billion.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Business Insider spoke with “a dozen current and former employees on the company’s hardware team,” who described “a division in crisis.” “By 2020, Amazon had registered at least 180 lobbyists in 44 U.S. In 2020 and 2021, Amazon fell behind the shopping sites of Costco Wholesale Corp.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Yet the company needed top hardware engineers to devote themselves to the project. Apart from possible non-compete and trade secrets issues with Microsoft, one potential complication for Panay in accepting a new Amazon role could be his role as a board member of Sonos , which he has held since August 2020.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Andy Jassy , who currently serves as CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), will replace Bezos as Amazon CEO. Those projects will include the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund , which Bezos established last year, and Blue Origins, his aerospace firm, which recently resumed test flights at the end of 2020.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In 2006, Amazon debuted one of its most significant products: the web server product that would come to be known as Amazon Web Services, or AWS. In November 2007, Amazon’s first major hardware product went on sale: the Amazon Kindle e-reader. 2014 was Amazon’s most significant year for consumer hardware.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2022

Looking to broaden its appeal to businesses, Microsoft on Monday announced the latest phase in a partnership with FedEx , saying they will offer “logistics as a service” to retailers through Microsoft’s Dynamics 365. The companies announced the partnership in 2020 , teaming up against a common rival, Amazon.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Luna is powered via Amazon Web Services, attractively priced at the moment ($5.99/month It offers the chance that at least some of a streamer’s audience might be effectively converted into players of that streamer’s current game, particularly since that audience won’t need any additional hardware to play it.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Jassy, currently the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a core believer in Bezos’ business philosophies and a longtime veteran of the company, having run the cloud division since its inception nearly two decades ago. That makes AWS effectively the engine of Amazon’s continuous reinvention, and Jassy is the spark that helps drive it.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

But there will be a new CEO starting in the third quarter: Andy Jassy, the long-serving leader of Amazon Web Services. In 2020, Amazon’s revenue was $386 billion, Microsoft’s revenue was $143 billion and Boeing’s was $58.2 He will continue to be influential in many decisions within the company. airplanes).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

trillion in 2020 to $5.16 If so, that could make the virtual office a more pleasant sight than the blurred backgrounds and disembodied heads we see in Teams today — and prompt a wave of hardware refreshes to support the additional graphics workload. It certainly started off that way, with Microsoft agreeing to pay $68.7

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